![]() ![]() Jim Mustich urged me to read this on our 1000 Books to Read Before You Die episode of What Should I Read Next. My husband discovered David Joy last fall and raced through all his work Joy’s words on his own work at a book festival this fall made me want to read this even more. A book recommended by someone with great taste After several readers recommended this one in the same week last summer, I picked up a copy at a Chicago used bookstore. I’ve adored Cleave’s more recent work, but still want to read this 2009 novel (which I hear is a real punch in the gut). I’m close to being a Joshilyn Jackson completist, but this 2010 hardcover remains on my shelves, unread. I’m seeing this nonfiction work about a real-life 1986 fire in the Los Angeles Public Library pop up on many of your best-of-2018 lists.Ī book in the backlist of a favorite author ![]() ![]() I have this checked out from the library right now. Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley.I love books about urban planning this book is about the need to explicitly design an environment everyone can function in. Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie.I’ve heard rave reviews about this relatively new release, which is part personal memoir, part culinary history. The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty.I’ve started-but never finished-this sweeping novel, which I brought home with me from an MMD Book Club book exchange. Authors with great taste have raved about this one, which I’ve had on my shelves for years. I’d love to hear what YOU are thinking of reading in comments. Enter your email below to join and we’ll immediately send you your free Reading Challenge kit with checklist and planning sheets. Plus we’ll stay in touch throughout the year with tips and encouragement to help you meet your reading goals. If you haven’t joined this year’s reading challenge, it’s not too late. I won’t read all of these, but wanted to share my ideas, for my own sake and in the hope they’ll inspire you. In most categories, I share three titles I’m considering reading. The 2019 Reading Challenge is here! Today I’m sharing the books I’m thinking of reading in 2019. A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars, by Seth Fishman.Scary books for beginning readers: #Road2Reading C.You Bring the Distant Near, by Mitali Perkins - a.If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. The review copy of In a Dark, Dark Room was kindly sent by the publisher, HarperCollins, and the other review copies came from my public and school libraries. As they say, every journey has a beginning and it's important to celebrate & support readers at the start of their reading journey. Please check out other posts in the #Road2Reading Challenge, hosted by my friends Alyson Beecher at Kid Lit Frenzy and Michele Knott at Mrs. Absolutely brilliant! All told with one short sentence on each page, with illustrations that respect the power of kids and their imaginations. Before going to sleep, / I always closed the closet door." In this classic picture book, Mayer turns the tables and has the child scare the monster as it comes out of the closet. "There used to be a nightmare in my closet. Childhood nightmares are real, and kids know this. Amazon / public library / Goodreads / level IĪ friend just wrote to me about the power of monster spray for her son.
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